Onassis, Jacqueline (Jackie Lee) (1929–1994)

French-born socialite, US first lady 1961–63. She was the wife of President John F Kennedy. She married the shipping billionaire Aristotle Onassis in 1968. After his death 1975, she worked as an editor at the New York publishers Viking and Doubleday.

As a photographer for the Times Herald, Bouvier met and captivated senator John Kennedy; they married 1953 and had two children, Caroline and John. She shone as first lady when Kennedy became president in 1961. In the redecorated White House, she hosted parties attended by prominent intellectuals and artists, and charmed world leaders. Her televised tour of the presidential home broke new ground. All this came to an abrupt end with her husband's assassination in 1963.